Quotes About Perception

There are four ways, and only four ways, in which we have contact with the world. We are evaluated and classified by these four contacts: what we do, how we look, what we say, and how we say it.

Those who are unaware they are walking in darkness will never seek the light.

We live in the world we are thinking of.

We never really perceive what color really is, as it physically is. This fact makes color the most relative medium in art.

The longer you look at an object, the more abstract it becomes, and, ironically, the more real.

The only way you can truly control how you are seen is by being honest all the time.

Men think epilepsy divine, merely because they do not understand it. We will one day understand what causes it, and then cease to call it divine. And so it is with everything in the universe.

It's not what you do, it's how you feel while doing it.

Who can believe that there is no soul behind those luminous eyes!

I never questioned the integrity of an umpire. Their eyesight, yes.

Education is the ability to perceive the hidden connections between phenomena.

Reputation is an idle and most false imposition; oft got without merit, and lost without deserving.

We are always complaining that our days are few, and acting as though there would be no end to them.

Our only limitations are those we set up in our own minds

You are not what you think you are, but WHAT YOU THINK, the thoughts that habitually possess your mind, that is what you are

The only real valuable thing is intuition.

Those who become entangled in these false ideas are prevented from perceiving the Integral Oneness.

The way we see the problem is the problem.

You can't really control what people think. You can't really worry about what they think, and attitude is really the one to have.

People have accepted the media's idea of what feminism is, but that doesn't mean that it's right or true or real. Feminism is not monolithic. Within feminism, there is an array of opinions.

Don't take anything personally. Nothing others do is because of you.

A dwarf standing on the shoulders of a giant may see farther than a giant himself.

Who makes us ignorant? We ourselves. We put our hands over our eyes and weep that it is dark.

To the attentive eye, each moment of the year has its own beauty, and in the same fields, it beholds, every hour, a picture which was never seen before, and which shall never be seen again.